Carnival, the "Poop Cruise," Becomes the "Pervert Cruise?"

Almost four years ago, the Carnival Triumph lost power due to an engine room fire while the Carnival cruise ship was cruising in the Gulf Of Mexico.  The Triumph lost power to its engines which operated its propulsion systems, shipboard lights, air conditioning, galley operations and hygiene systems. Toilets overflowed as increasingly hungry, tired and frustrated passengers were forced to walk on soggy urine-soaked carpets over the course of four day as the stinky Carnival cruise ship was slowly towed back to the U.S. CNN and other networks covered the disgusting spectacle essentially 24-hours-a-day. In the process, Carnival – previously marketed as the "Fun Ships" – earned a reputation as the "Poop Cruise" line, a term the media (primarily CNN) coined for the event. The term "poop cruise" is found in the official Wikipedia description for the cruise ship.  "Poop cruise" caught on and was repeated in numerous stories about the…

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